On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:27 PM Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/01/2018 10:13 PM, John Calcote wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 2:54 PM Sascha Manns <sascha.ma...@outlook.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Start by removing all of the lines in the macro argument that end in .in.
>
> Well, most of them.  But po/Makefile.in is actually a typical
> AC_CONFIG_FILES target, as gettext ships a po/Makefile.in.in (yes, with
> the double suffix), and does it's own thing later on during make to
> convert po/Makefile.in into an actual Makefile without having to depend
> on automake (although typically you don't store either po/Makefile.in.in
> nor po/Makefile.in in version control, as they are generated files).
>

Wow - I wondered for a half second if it were possible the input files were
named with .in.in extensions, but immediately discounted that possibility.
I guess that'll teach me.

John
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